BEER Group Read. "How is this day different from any other day?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sun Oct 13 11:24:32 CDT 2013


That's what it means to me.

One of the BIG themes in BE is how so much of quotidian life, Upper  
West Side, 2001, is mediated by Televisual Experience. How the talk  
and look is saturated with the televisual, so much so that we cease to  
notice, This novel becomes glib "telefare" to those who think  
themselves "Above that", immune to the seductions of popcult.   
Bleeding Edge has all content of the other "Big" novels but, like the  
culturally preterite "Tubeular" novels it is situated in the age of  
Television, just before TV mutated into the Interwebs.

On Oct 13, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Keith Davis wrote:

> This idea of mediated reality seems like an important idea. To be  
> clear, are we using it here in the sense of how our view of the  
> world around us,  and our participation in it, is shaped by how it's  
> presented to us in the media? Seems like there could be a few  
> different ways this word could be used, and I want to be clear about  
> it.

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